CVE-2025-48072 — OpenEXR's Inaccurate Pointer Arithmetic can Cause an Out of Bounds Heap

Affected: AcademySoftwareFoundation openexr

OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. Version 3.3.2 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow during a read operation due to bad pointer math when decompressing DWAA-packed scan-line EXR files with a maliciously forged chunk. This is fixed in version 3.3.3.

GHSA-4r7w-q3jg-ff43 — OpenEXR Out of Bounds Heap Read due to Bad Pointer Arithmetic in LossyDctDecoder_execute

Affected: PyPI: OpenEXR

### Summary The OpenEXRCore code is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow during a read operation due to bad pointer math when decompressing DWAA-packed scan-line EXR files with a maliciously forged chunk.

### Details

In the `LossyDctDecoder_execute` function (from `src/lib/OpenEXRCore/internal_dwa_decoder.h`, when SSE2 is enabled), the following code is used to copy data from the chunks:

```cpp // no-op conversion to linear for (int y = 8 * blocky; y < 8 * blocky + maxY; ++y) { __m128i* restrict dst = (__m128i *) chanData[comp]->_rows[y]; __m128i const * restrict src = (__m128i const *)&rowBlock[comp][(y & 0x7) * 8];

for (int blockx = 0; blockx < numFullBlocksX; ++blockx) { _mm_storeu_si128 (dst, _mm_loadu_si128 (src)); //

src += 8 * 8; // <--- si128 pointer incremented as a uint16_t dst += 8; } } ```

The issue arises because the `src` pointer, which is a `si128` pointer, is incremented by `8*8`, as if it were a `uint16_t` pointer (64 * uint16_t == 128 bytes). In non-block aligned chunks (width/height not a multiple of 8), this can cause `src` to point past the boundaries of the chunk.

### PoC

In order to reproduce the PoC with fidelity and avoid undefined behaviors, it is necessary to enable ASAN (and SSE2). Otherwise the out-of-bound read will not be detected until its side-effect causes a crash.

NOTE: please download the `dwadecoder_crash.exr` file from the following link:

https://github.com/ShielderSec/poc/tree…

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